Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMar 20How artificial intelligence learned language — Harvard Gazetteharvard.edu - gazetteterrymurphyThe recent news around advances in artificial intelligence — in particular, the emergence of the writing chatbot ChatGPT — left many Americans …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithAvatarAvatar3 days agoSearching for Home in Hmong American WritingJSTOR Daily - H.M.A. LeowTwo significant poetry anthologies deterritorialize home, showing that for Hmong Americans, home can be a process of moving and running despite …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithAvatarAvatar3 days ago48 Years Later, Frank Herbert's Lost 'Dune' Script is Hilariously Weird, and Kind of BadInverse - Max EvryIn 1976, Frank Herbert attempted to adapt his seminal sci-fi novel into a screenplay. He did not succeed. With Dune: Part Two continuing to conquer the …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithAvatarAvatarApr 19, 2017Why you should re-read Paradise Lostverified_publisherBBC Culture - Benjamin RammThe greatest epic poem in the English language, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, has divided critics – but its influence on English literature is second only to Shakespeare’s.
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithAvatarAvatarMar 2010 Best Thriller Books of All Timewerd.com - Andrew PeloquinThere are few things more engaging than a well-crafted, fast-paced thriller. Thriller books bring a high degree of excitement and anticipation, a …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithAvatarAvatarWhy We Still Read Marcus Aurelius’ MeditationsTIME - Donald J. RobertsonIn the middle of the second century CE, the most powerful man in the Western world sat in the legionary fortress of Carnuntum, by the River Danube, contemplating the fact that one day nobody would remember his name. “Near is your forgetfulness of all things,” he wrote, “and near the forgetfulness …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRepublicans have no choice but to rewrite the ending of Atlas Shrugged in order to gain powerdailykos.com - by rmartin1241I daresay most DK readers are familiar with Ayn Rand, her bestselling novels, and her pop philosophy (objectivism). The fact that she chose fiction …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSt. Augustine and J.R.R. Tolkientheimaginativeconservative.org - Bradley J. BirzerAs did St. Augustine as the barbarians tore through Rome’s gate on August 24, 410, at midnight, J.R.R. Tolkien looked out over a ruined world: a …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPercival Everett’s American Landscapes - 3 Quarks Daily3quarksdaily.com - Morgan MeisMorgan has a Ph.D. in philosophy. He was supposed to specialize in the Greeks and Romans but managed to write a dissertation on Walter Benjamin. …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe 10 Best Hugo Award Winners to Check Outbookriot.com - Chris M. ArnoneOh, the Hugo Awards. For the last several years, it seems they just can’t get away from controversy. From the recent political censorship to Sad …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithAvatarAvatarBriefly Notedverified_publisherThe New Yorker“Errand Into the Maze,” “A Map of Future Ruins,” “Wild Houses,” and “The Road from Belhaven.” Errand Into the Maze, by Deborah Jowitt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This astute biography, by a veteran Village Voice critic, traces the long career of Martha Graham, a choreographer who became one of the …
Avatar�� Kit ArrowsmithAvatarAvatarChristine Blasey Ford Testifies Againverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Megan GarberHer new memoir doubles as a modern-day horror story. “I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified,” Christine Blasey Ford said in the fall of 2018, introducing herself to the Senate Judiciary Committee and a television audience of millions. Early in One Way Back, the memoir Ford has …